Greek Texts & Translations

issued, and smoke and smoky blazes; afterwards it congealed and became a rock like mill-stones. Titus Flaminius, ^note who then commanded in Sicily, despatched to the senate [of Rome] a fill account of the phenomenon; the senate sent and offered sacrifices to the infernal and marine divinities both in the little island [which had thus been formed] and the Lipari Islands. Now the chorographer reckons that from Ericodes to Phoenicodes are 10 miles, from thence to Didyma 30, from thence to the northernmost point ^note of Lipari 29, and from thence to Sicily 19, while from Strongyle are 16. ^note Melita ^note lies before ^note Pachynus; from thence come the little dogs called Maltese; ^note so does also Gaudus, ^note both of them are situated about 88 miles distant from that promontory. Cossura ^note is situated before Cape Lilybaesum, and opposite the Carthaginian city Aspis, which they call [in Latin] Clypea, it is situated in the midst of the space which lies between those